As we made wall decor with the effect of the sandy wind from available materials

The history of their repairs to share with us, our subscribers will.

A month before the New Year, my husband and I decided to change the wallpaper in the hallway. We visited a bunch of stores in search of suitable wallpaper. Nothing I did not like what he saw. I always liked to design the walls of the type of Venetian plaster. Live texture, natural materials, to choose colors in the process, by adding different callers.

Experience in repairs have been miserable at the level of - wall-paper hanging, painting risers, pipes. Previously, we asked for help from experts. I was in full confidence that this week we will cope with the walls and the floor. After all, I saw as it "easy" to get the professionals.

How we chose the materials

Our repair school started with watching videos on YouTube, there is the benefit they are present in large numbers. In the second clip on cover classical Venetian I came to the conclusion that not cope. We need to simplify the process. So perfectly polished walls I did not get.

The idea came to - align the walls on beacons plaster proshpaklevat, wallpaper paste and cover with decorative coating. What I did not know more until, buy a finished coating or to make the most. Yes, and the material for the floor decided to determine the store. We drove with her husband in two major store in our town Leroy Merlin and Castorama.

I found there a suitable decorative covering with sand. But woe! Cans with color was four. We would not be enough, as I from my own experience in sizing wallpaper knew that glue consumption, which is recommended by manufacturers must be multiplied by two.

But the idea that I want to naturalness present in the walls I did not want to give up.

Then I decided to make the coating itself. I bought a few cans of paint pearl three colors, decorative transparent quartz sand, water-based lacquer. But I still really like the soft flicker. For this needed glitter. In DIY stores it unduly inflated price, so I decided to buy it at art supply stores.

As a result, the decorative coating I published three times cheaper than I would have bought ready-made. A huge plus was that I was able to mix the three colors in different proportions to produce pleasing color. Texture of wallpaper for painting, I chose a wavy, to distribute the sand when painting was more convenient, as it were flowing izgibistymi dunes.

For the walls, we bought:

• gypsum plaster
• putty
• Wallpaper
• Glue
• a universal primer
• pearl paint
• Lac water
• quartz sand

The choice of floor coverings

Then we moved on to the question of covering the floor. We had to cover a water-resistant, as in those of our families are registered two more cat and dog, I wash the floors every day. Laminate needed to clean up and look for a solution, "THOUGH zaleysya floor with water." We found it quickly - kvartsvinilovaya tiles.

We decided to take the one that is glued to the floor. There she has another option - going as laminate, castle. But I doubted it. The only condition in this tile - perfect, flat floor. We had to buy everything for self-leveling floor. It:

• damper tape
• Mixture for self-leveling floor
• needle roller
• The finish mixture
• quartz tiles
• glue universal

The next day we started repairing. Two days removed plaster. The process is not easy, because before that the walls were plastered with cement - sand mixture. I was in the hands of a hammer with a chisel and hammer husband decided to rattle. At the time of the busy work, to continue to live safely with their neighbors on the porch, I hung a sign on the door of Leroy Merlin - "Sorry, we do repairs."

It was the dirtiest stage of transformation of our corridor. The first night I was "killed" his faithful assistant - Samsung vacuum cleaner. I come to the aid of the cleaning Philips. After that, I do not advise anyone to use the equipment, not intended for use in construction work.

Once we removed the plaster husband, under the guidance of masters from YouTube, engaged in pouring the floor. It took three days. Then he put beacons on the walls, and I started to plastering walls. He prevented me from solution nozzle for mixtures clad on a drill, I applied to the wall and leveled its mixture rule.

When the plaster dries, smoothing a wet brush - maklovitsej and spatula to less then had applied layer finishki. Putty is applied by roller, it's more convenient, then equated spatula.

Wallpapering took two days. I nakonets then started to paint. Mixed pearlescent paints, made for the color seen in the store, sand added. Painting has been an exciting process. Brush - CEILING if she fluttered in relief wallpaper, carrying grains of sand on the sides of the recesses waves. Wet shining pearl attractive overflow.

The walls were painted, but I still went, looked at them and admiring depth flicker pearlescent sand. The next day, lacquered walls with glitter white gold color.

Another three days we spent on the tile laying on the floor and baseboards.

And what about the door?

 Looking at the criminal conduct us, I realized - we missed the door... They have an array of Italian. I always liked the dark door, and we have light. I have long wanted to change the color. When I suggested to her husband to remove the doors, sanding, and in the presence of the house nine pieces of doors, it was not very good. But I managed to get a positive decision on his part.

That evening we went to the store and bought an inexpensive sander, stain, varnish and toning Yacht varnish. The door he took off, taken away to the country, to the polished wood. Then together we do promo, mixing two shades: rosewood and oak Sorrento covered the tinted varnish, and then Yachting. That's what we've got.

And voila! Hello completion of repair! As it turned out - all of which were afraid of - nothing! All that were not afraid - not taken into account... But as they say, the one who does not do anything, he does not commit..

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